{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersoffthepage.ca%2Fepisodes%2Fangela-carter-nights-at-the-circus-oj5NXBFh","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/d08fb21e-6028-44f9-9263-d34bf5e6de11/c928e8a1-35e3-422c-b115-a8fb5ff643af/writers-off-the-page-2.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/afca992c-4ecf-40eb-a73a-3c6960d0adb9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Salman Rushdie tells a story about a reading he was asked to do for a UK book festival early in his career. On the ticket with Rushdie was another young British writer, Angela Carter who, when taking the stage, looked out into a sparsely attended event and spontaneously invited the entire group of attendees to continue the event across the road at the Pub. That sense of Carter -- inventive, flexible but ever practical -- comes out in this reading, recorded in Toronto in 1986, and demonstrates her powerful voice, complex use of language, and her unique humour and creativity. Her early death at age 51 was a major loss for English-language writing.\n\nThe audio recording used in this episode from Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter is published by Chatto & Windus, 1984. Copyright © The Estate of Angela Carter. Reproduced by permission of the Estate c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN. Additionally, the audio is used with permission of the Toronto International Festival of Authors."}